The Chivalry Guild Letters

The Chivalry Guild Letters

The Cardinal Virtues: Introduction

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Jan 05, 2023
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What we really need right now is to rediscover what a few old words mean.

Thanks to decades of sloppy usage, it’s not entirely clear what virtue and the virtues are actually good for. As Orwell once noted, our language deteriorates because our thoughts become foolish, and the deterioration of our language makes it e…

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